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Advisor Working Session: April 15, 2026
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Working Session
Updates
Apr 14, 2026
Pivot: Changing Tack to Plan, Prioritize, Progress, and Prevail
It has been a minute since I did a proper recap, and since this week was all about planning and realigning myself with the work that will move me forward, it felt like a…
Apr 11, 2026
Advisor 1v1: April 8, 2026
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1.1 Mussel Biomarker Manuscript
(Deliverable 2 of 3 in Academic Alert)
Apr 7, 2026
Advisor 1v1: February 11, 2026
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MS Proposal
Feb 10, 2026
Sundays are for Seahawks & spending time with your favorite bivalve
Testing Mytilus response to resazurin assays
Following the established protocols of the Resazurin Assay (Huffmyer et al., 2025), I modified the assay to support a trial run for
Mytilus trossulus
. This work had two goals:
Jan 25, 2026
Week 1 of 52: Weekly Wrap Up Templates
I’ve decided to stage some templates for my daily and weekly notebook posts to make it easier to pull my notes from Notion together into something cohesive. Below is the…
Jan 3, 2026
Epigenetics: A Playbook for Marine Survival
Reflections
The primary goal of this communication project was to make the complexity of marine epigenetics accessible, engaging, and relatable to a non-expert audience. My intended…
Dec 2, 2025
Chris Mantegna
Epigenetics: A Playbook for Marine Survival
How Marine Organisms Run the Ultimate Game Plan
If you’ve ever met me, you know I’m a sports girl. A true-blue (purple), tried and true sports fan. I ride for my Baltimore Ravens, I will alter the weather for my Seattle…
Dec 1, 2025
Chris Mantegna
Weekly Advisor Meeting
1v1
Today’s goal is to recap what I’ve been up to for the last 2 weeks and work through the validation chapter
Nov 13, 2025
Weekly Advisor Meeting
1v1
Today’s Meeting is all about mussel reproduction, environmentally induced sex determinants and whatever is up with maternal and
paternal
mtDNA… cool stuff.
Oct 23, 2025
Epigenetics & Ecotoxicology
Exploring Epigenetics as a Tool for Ecotoxicological Work
Oct 21, 2025
FISH 510 | October 2025 | Chris Mantegna
Weekly Advisor Meeting
1v1
Today’s goal is to recap last week’s committee meeting and review the scaffolding for re-working the PhD proposal.
Oct 16, 2025
Introduction to Notion
productivity tools
Notion has been a management and organization tool that I have been using on and off for the last 6 years, and finally this year I have hit my stride with the platform. This…
Oct 11, 2025
October Committee Meeting
committee meeting
Overview of work to date
Oct 7, 2025
Weekly Adviser Meeting
1v1
The goal today is to work through building my committee meeting presentation and ending with a recap of activities from the week.
Oct 2, 2025
October Goals
biomarkers
bypass package
committee meeting
I have one overarching goal this month and that is to complete the draft of my bypass package and get it to my committee for review by the close of business on October 31st.
Oct 1, 2025
Weekly Adviser Meeting
1v1
Agenda for 09.25.2025 Meeting
Sep 24, 2025
Kenya 2025
I had the great fortune of collaborating with the University of Minnesota (UMN) and the National Museums of Kenya (KMN) in July and August to conduct field work that…
Aug 31, 2025
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